nPower Kinetic Charger For your Gadgets

A charger with a difference here. The nPower PEG Kinetic charger virtually powers up by itself, the sun is not needed. Most battery charger devices on the market use solar energy to get those little electrons captured ready to power our mobile phones or MP3 Players.  The PEG, which stands for Personal Energy Generator, uses Kinetic energy to juice itself [...]

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Xpal Egg Solar Charger

Yep, Another Solar Charger, but not all chargers are created equally. The Xpal Solar Egg comes in as one of the lightweights with a specific purpose. The egg name needs no explanation once you have seen the shape of the device. It features technology called SunBoost, developed by Intivation , that allows the solar charger to perform better in lower [...]

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Solar Powered Speakers From Japan

This is what every “green” party needs, A set of solar powered speakers to blast out those tunes while trying the save the world. For the rest of use who just want to save a little bit of energy and cash and have a good time then these solar powered speakers could be a nice accessory.  Most of us have [...]

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Mobile Phone Chargers have become Novelties

We are gradually moving away from having our mobile phones being charged by plugging in to the mains power with alternate forms of topping up the batteries. Using solar energy is the obvious and most practical choice for getting that extra bit of talk time. Solar Powered Chargers are not quite common and can happily sit on a window or [...]

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Solar Charger Freeloader Pico

Freeloader come out again with another solar energy powered device, The Pico is enables you to keep your mobile devices powered up without the restrictions of having to be near a utility outlet. The Freeloader Pico is essentially a Lithium Ion battery that is charged up with a photovoltaic solar panel add in a few connectors and wrap it all [...]

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Cleaning Solar Panels
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Photovoltaic solar panels detest dirt and grim more than anything. As the wind blows across the world lots of particles are picked up and deposited elsewhere. Some of this may end up on your solar panels. The grains of sand act as barriers to the sunlight and block the much needed solar energy from reaching the cells and reducing the [...]

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Solar Impulse Aircraft to Fly at Night
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The Solar powered aircraft, Solar Impulse, is to attempt the next phase in its energy efficient development. The aircraft will energize itself during the day and store the energy in its internal batteries ready for the attempt at flying at night. The aircraft which is covered in solar panels will take off on its test flight from Switzerland. Developed by [...]

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Oceanlinx Wave Generator Sinks
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Renewable Energy took a crashing in Australia with the destruction of Oceanlinx’s wave power generator. As ever mariner knows the sea should be respected for the forces it can unleashed. The Australian company Oceanlinx has found this out with the destruction of their generator in Port Kembla. The prototype machine was moored close to a breakwater and due to rough [...]

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Tapping Wave Energy in Scotland
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Aquamarine Power plans to harvest the energy of the easy with the Oyster. Wave Energy has not seem as much development as other forms of renewable energy like solar and wind power. But developments are taking place around the globe some with more success than others. Aquamarine hopes to install their new wave machine, the Oyster 2, around the waters [...]

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Nano Fiber Lighting takes on LED
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If you thought Light Emitting Diode Lighting was space age then you’ll be enlightened by the news of a new upstart glowing in the future. Nano Fiber Lights are looking to compete. Nano fibers are tiny, around the diameter of a human hair. They can emit light using an amount of energy that is 5 times less than the older [...]

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Wind Power Blowing Out in the USA
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The United States of America was once on the leading edge of renewable energy generated from wind power. Now it seems this drive is starting to blow itself out. Last year, 2009, the USA installed a quite massive 9.8 GigaWatts of wind generating capacity. In 2010 this may drop to just 7 GigaWatts of new installations. It is not clear [...]

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Solar and Wind Power Calls to India
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The Indian Mobile Phone company Airvoice Group and the public sector body Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam have joined in a venture to use Wind Energy and Solar Power to produce 13GW of power  in India. Karnataka district located in the southwest of India is the region for the development. Using multiple sites for the development  project aims to produce up [...]

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Flexible Solar Cells From Caltech

The California Institute of Technology are developing flexible solar cells that may prove to be cheaper and more efficient than current types on the market. This is a new breed of cells that uses thin silicon wires embedded in a polymer substrate along with light scattering particles. If you are lost then don’t worry, so am I. This technology is [...]

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